sending email in CodeIgniter through gmail

codeigniter, mamp

Solution

in your php.ini file uncomment extension=php_openssl.dll

$config = Array(
            'protocol'  => 'smtp',
            'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
            'smtp_port' => '465',
            'smtp_user' => 'someuser@gmail.com',
            'smtp_pass' => 'password',
            'mailtype'  => 'html',
            'starttls'  => true,
            'newline'   => "\r\n"
        );

    $this->load->library('email', config);
    $this->email->from('email@gmail.com', 'George');
    $this->email->to('email@gmail.com');
    $this->email->subject('hey this is an email');
    $this->email->message('this is the content of the email');
    $this->email->send();
    echo $this->email->print_debugger();

Hope this will work

Problem

I'm following a tutorial to send emails using gmail, however what I get is a page that just hangs and doesn't even load an error. I'm using MAMP so that may be a reason why it isnt working. ``` class Email extends CI_Controller{ public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); } function index(){ $config = Array( 'protocol' => 'smtp', 'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com', 'smtp_port' => 465, 'smtp_user' => 'email', 'smtp_pass' => 'pass' ); $this->load->library('email',$config); $this->email->set_newline("/r/n"); $this->email->from('email', 'George'); $this->email->to('email'); $this->email->subject('hey this is an email'); $this->email->message('this is the content of the email'); if($this->email->send()){ echo 'Your message was sent'; }else{ show_error($this->email->print_debugger()); } } } ```

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